These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church, 2015. Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2017. The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics:

4,706,000

Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population:

27.78%

Baptisms per Year (Under age 7):

17,096

Baptisms per Year (Over age 7):

673

First Communions per Year:

21,858

Confirmations per Year:

14,827

Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools:

651

Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools:

371

Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education:

10

Church Marriages per Year:

2,081

Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics:

1,944

Priests:

2,260

Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters):

4,417

Catholics per Priest:

2,082

Parishes:

1,021

1.United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Urbanization Prospects, 2014.

2.United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.